The SportsCenter of Los Angeles running

If run clubs are booming, it’s because people can find them. In a city as massive as Los Angeles, though, you can rely on the L.A. Running Connoisseur to highlight the communities in your neighborhood

How do you find a run club? Word of mouth? What if you’ve just started running, and you don’t yet know anybody to ask? How do you find your community?

This is a world where the USA is losing 2.5 local newspapers every week (over 2,900 since 2005), leaving over 200 counties as complete news deserts - they have no local news outlet. Over half of all U.S. counties now have limited access to reliable local news and information. Gone are the classified ads pages where you might find someone handy to put up some shelves, a romantic partner listing their desires in 80 characters, or scan the listings of the local goings on that week. This might’ve been the place you found a bunch of like-minded pavement-pounders. That is no longer the case.

We now have various apps for finding contractors or love interests, journalists are being laid off from publications of all sizes (we’re down 43,000 newspaper journalists since 2005), and advertising in general has migrated to online only, while being compl…